Greetings,
On Aug 15, 2015 3:18 PM, "Pablo Brasero Moreno" <pablo@pablobm.com> wrote:
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> Hello there,
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> As the title suggests: is it possible to break out of the chroot jail where chroot hooks are executed?
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> My use case: there's a significantly large file I want to include as part of my custom distro. To keep the build scripts short and git-manageable, I'd like to download this file from the Internet and store it in the `cache/` directory. This will save me repeat downloads after each build. Any ideas of how I can manage that?
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> My alternative ideas so far (haven't tried any yet):
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> * Run a simple HTTP server on the `auto/build` script, serving files from `cache/`, which can then be downloaded from the chroot hook
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I have often none or limited bandwidth when I build images, so I keep a functional mirror on my notebook and I have performed operations similar to what you need and just script against localhost and my local running Web server. So I would share that hosting files for install is pretty straight forward and should work well.
> * Download/cache the file from `auto/build`, generate a deb package with it, leave it at `config/packages.chroot/`
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> Both sound a bit crazy, so I was wondering if it's possible with just that chroot hook!
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> Thank you,
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> Pablo Brasero Moreno
> pablo@pablobm.com